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| Topic | Do you think man will land on Mars in your lifetime? |
| DarkDoc 02/18/24 6:08:35 AM #33: | LeoRavus posted... NASA only gets like $25 billion a year. We've given 3 times that to Ukraine. There's plenty of money to go around. Most people don't realise that women spent more on lipstick than they did on the Apollo program. bladegash posted... Not in the foreseeable future. Nothing to do with technology. Earth passes Mars once every 2 years, at its closest it is 35 million miles away. It would take like 9 months to get there, you would be on Mars mandatory around 5-6 months waiting for a proper time to leave for the 9 month return trip catch earth as it passes the next time around. Yeah, 9 months each way. You have a choice of landing on Mars and then leaving immediately, within a couple of hours, or waiting it out like you said. But it's no big deal. People routinely spend months on the ISS. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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